Talk:Biome

Biome Names
I think we need to discuss what to call the biomes. "Toxic" biome in particular I think is a poor name, since the "Slime" biome is really the most "toxic" as labeled by the game, being full of polluted oxygen. The files refer to the biome as Jungle, but this doesn't seem that appropriate in its current state, either. Although "Purple" biome sounds a bit lame, I think it's better than the alternatives-- "Phosphorous Biome" is annoyingly long, naming it after Chlorine or Hydrogen only tell half the gas story of the biome, and "Hot" biome conflicts a bit with magma. This is the full list of names from the files):

- biomes_Sedimentary - biomes_HotMarsh - biomes_Misc - biomes_Default - biomes_Jungle - biomes_Crystal - biomes_Frozen

Crystal is unused in the games, Default is just vacuum, and Misc covers most of the things not mentioned, such as Magma. Edit: Sedimentary is the starting biome Rezecib (talk) 04:52, 18 June 2017 (UTC)


 * The "real" names are very ambiguous too - is Jungle the one with vines (peppernuts) or the one less hot than HotMarsh? Is Sedimentary the one with sedimentary stone (slime one) or the starting one? "Slime" is very descriptive, as the whole biome is very "organic". The "toxic"/purple biome is pretty volcanic, it's hard to separate it from magma biome. How about naming them by the metals they contain? Each biome has exactly one type of metal in it. Husariastrong (talk) 13:14, 18 June 2017 (UTC)


 * Sedimentary is the starting biome, yeah. I agree that the code's names are not very satisfying, but at least they could set a standard, which could protect us from needing to rename them in the future. Metals would work, although it would seem a little weird to call the Ice/Frozen biome "Wolframite biome" instead. Maybe another "theme" to go for would be to have a descriptive term that isn't one of the primary resources, so, for example, Slime could be Swamp, and Ice could be Frozen. Some ideas for the purple biome: Iron, Caustic, Pepper, Coal, Bleach. Caustic would fit with the Swamp/Frozen theme, which could be... Temperate, Swamp, Frozen, Caustic? We discussed it a bit in the forums Discord channel, and started a strawpoll there too to get some wider feedback. Rezecib (talk) 16:00, 18 June 2017 (UTC)